stormont elections before christmas. keeping the lights on this winter a new scheme launches which will see customers offered discounts on their energy bills if they agree to use less electricity at peak times. with the key us midterm elections just four days away, donald trump drops his strongest hint yet that he plans another run for the white house. and now, in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, 0k? very, very, very probably. we are going to find the solutions to repair our planet. prince william has announced the finalists for his global environment awards, the earthshot prize. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using the migrant camps of northern france as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the uk drugs industry on arrival. it comes as record numbers of migrants are us
qualified medical staff who are left without adequate supervision. tonight, we ask is patient safety being compromised? they re putting profits, money, ahead of quality of care. - that is a massive risk to patients. my name s jacqui wakefield and i m undercover at this london practice. it s run by a private company called operose health. operose has an estimated annual turnover of £88 million and is owned by a big american corporation. we re not naming this practice, or anyone who works here. it looks after around 20,000 patients. when phone lines open at 8am, dozens of patients wait in a queue to speak to me. 0perose health has grown rapidly in recent years. since 2016, it s spent millions buying gp practices across england. it now runs 70 surgeries with nearly 600,000 patients, making it the biggest gp provider to the nhs. panorama has spoken to a dozen former employees from across the 0perose group. one is a nurse who says she was sidelined in favour of lower paid, less q
who are left without adequate supervision. tonight, we ask is patient safety being compromised? they re putting profits, money, ahead of quality of care. - that is a massive risk to patients. i my name s jacqui wakefield and i m undercover at this london practice. it s run by a private company called operose health. operose has an estimated annual turnover of £88 million and is owned by a big american corporation. we re not naming this practice, or anyone who works here. it looks after around 20,000 patients. when phone lines open at 8am, dozens of patients wait in a queue to speak to me. a lot of my roles got taken away from me and given to healthcare assistants who had been trained up, not even healthcare assistants with a huge amount of clinical experience. i think the major risk by giving these tasks to people with less training and less knowledge is that they don t know what they don t know and that s when things get missed. this doctor says she left 0perose because of
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to be delivered preterm, one in five babies need to go to the neonatal unit. so it s really clear that covid 19 infection has got serious implications for the woman and the baby. but we now have evermore data to say that the vaccines are safe in pregnancy and very strongly recommended by everyone. more than 90 million covid 19 booster or third doses have been given in the uk so far. the new measures for gps in england, an attempt to meet what s been described as a national mission to increase vaccine capacity. joining me now is dr steve mowle, a spokesperson for the royal college of gps and a practicing gp in south london. is this a good idea? definitely. we need more capacity to help with this critical booster campaign which we are sure is the right thing to do